The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-03-02
THE IMPENDING WAR
Loud Notes Of Alarm Sounded In
the German Capital.
The French Building Huts For
100000 Men On the Frontier.

The Berlin Nachrichten says: "Theth
ening character Of the situation across the
western frontier is becoming much more
acute. ! In view of the fact that huts have al
ready been constructed to shelter 100, 600 men,
and that preparations have been made TO
shelter similar number around Belfore, wo
have, beyond doubt, to deal with nothing
less than the STRENGTHENING of the French
line to enable them at the beginning of hos
titles to throw a large for>e ac:css the
frontier, and thus transfer operations 10
German Territory"
Herr Tissendorf, Chief Procurator OF the
Imperial Tribunal at Leipsic; Commissary
Tausch of the Criminal Inquiry Depart
ment, and Public Prosecutor Vacano have
Herr Tissendorf afterward started for
Mulhausen and Herr Tausch for
Metz. 1t is supposed the object of their jour-
ney is to make inquiries respecting secret
communications between German and French
Anarchists, and concerning a reported con-
spiracy between the French Patriotic League
and its adherents in Alsace.
Continued arrests OF Socialists at Magde-
burg have paraly7ed the electoral agitation
there. Thirty-eight Socialists were taken into
custody, including most Of the members or
the local electoral committee.
Prince Hohenlohe, Governor Of Alsace-
Lorraine Issued an election manifesto. He
said:
"The Government has asked for the pas
sage of a Septennate Army bill because it is
persuaded that Germany will be threatened
with the danger of war as soon as chat Part
of tho French nation which longs for war
regards the military strength Of France
superior to that of Germany. If Alsace-Lor.
raine wishes not to be exposed to the terrors
of another war, let peaceable and concilia-
tory Deputies be elected to the new Reich
stag-Deputies who accept the peace of 1871.
Those who vote to return members of the
protesting anti i-Germany) party, or enemies
of the Governments Septenrate bill, will be
responsible for the continuance OF disquiet
and the resultant injury to trade and COM
merce.
"If in some electoral districts the friends
of peace find themselves unable, because of
the pressure of former political leaders, to
put forward the candidates they would like
to have elected to the new Reichstag, they
may deposit blank voting papers, aad in this
way express their views and record the real
opinion of the country:
"The reunion of Alsace- Lorraine to Ger
many is irrevocable as long as the German
Empire exists. These days are pregnant
with decisive issues Listen only to what
your conscience and good sense and your
love Of home and your family and your
property dictate"
[The :.Septennate Army bill" referred to in
the foregoing is the recent measure intro
duced in the German Reichstag and advo-
Gated strongly by Prince Bismarck and Gen.
eral Won Moltke The bill provided for ad-
ditional army supplies and organization, the
appropriations to run for seven years. Its
opponents. however, carried an amendment
making the o: appropriations and provisions of
the bill to run for only three years, where
upon Emperor William dissolved the Reich
stag and ordered new elections, hoping to
get O majority Of new members in favor Of
the seven-year measure.-ED.l